Bellied Up - Midwest Nice Vs. Southern Hospitality #133

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

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Welcome back to another episode of the bellied up podcast. I'm here with my host Charlie Barron's Charlie. Where are we at today? Well, there's squeaking in my mouth. Should have told you miles. We're at the Mars told you miles we're at the Mars cheese castle We are at the Mars cheese castle. This is my first time ever here It's a staple Sorry hanging. I got cheese squeaking. Yeah, that's why I was gonna wait till we Did a little mmm Very good. Mm-hmm

We are eating malcores Melcores D Dillon garlic cheese curd. It's really good. Tell us about the cheese castle, Charlie. Well, miles Mars cheese castles are really, it's an institution. It's a staple here in Wisconsin. If you pop this out, Wisconsin, Wisconsin might just fall right down into Illinois. And, um And and honestly, I can't think of anything more Wisconsin than a castle. No, I mean, we're known for our castles here in Wisconsin. We're known for our cheese.

So it makes sense. You put up Mars cheese castle. You got White Castle White Castle's. That's not a Wisconsin thing. Sorry. That's I think a Minnesota thing. That's the first place I had. Oh, no, it's an Ohio thing. I basically everywhere, but here I fall into some town and I saw White Castle corporate headquarters

sign lit up on the on the skyline. I want to say it was somewhere, perhaps Columbus. Wichita, Wichita. I did. I think I did Wichita. I did Wichita. Tell us about the cheese castle, Charlie. What's the history behind it? Well, miles way back in the day, there were lords and commoners here in Wisconsin.

And one of the lords became a king after a hard battle against the Racine King. Is that what we're seeing on the painting over there? That's exactly what it is. Yeah, you see, there's the Lord of Kenosha and the Lord of Kenosha became a king. And he hashed out this very castle right here. This is an ancient, ancient building. It's got a cave with cheese.

It's got a big old mouse. Now, that mouse used to be living. That's a stuffed mouse. They used to put plastic. I did do a lap. I saw old mouse. Now that mouse used to be living. That's a stuffed mouse. They used to put plastic over it. I did do a lap. I saw the mouse. It did say no climbing on the mouse. And thank God they had that sign

because I was about to hop up there. Yep. And Miles, you know, we are cut from the same cloth because that sign is up there because of me. Yeah, that adds up. Yep. You can't ride the mouse. Okay.

It's not one of those you put a quarter in, you get a funny feeling. Twixed you. Anyways, so yeah, back in the day, a lord became a king and the king made this his fortress and he filled it with cheese. And there was so much cheese back in the day that it was the surplus for Wisconsin

and now they sell it to the commoners. And I purchased some cheese for you, by the way, didn't hear thank you. Well, I haven't got into them yet. You have gotten into them. You were eating them before the show. You dropped one on the ground. I said, Miles, five second rule.

You said, I'm not eating that. If you think that was me getting into cheese curds, that was a little sampler, Charlie. Little sampler, that's true. You don want to see me get into some cheese curds Yeah, I know this guy you're gonna be plugged up till Christmas. I have a feeling you ready. Should we do it? Yeah Oh, we're gonna anyone cheers a cheese. Cheers. This is a cheers to Lord Mars and his cheese castle To Lord Mars.

Mm hmm. Very squeaky. Mm hmm. Terrible radio right there. Miles, stop it. That sound group gross. You got it. You got it. You're getting too much saliva in with your squeaks. Very good. Cheese curds, by the way. So good. They know what they're doing here at the castle. Of course they do.

I mean, you're in Wisconsin. We know cheese miles true. Hey, it all adds up. It all adds up. Yes, it does. Before we get into some colors, Charlie. Yeah, miles. I would love to give a insight into my morning. Okay. What happened? And I'm going to call this segment what it's like to drive 30 minutes with Charlie Barron. Oh, really? It was that bad. Well, we'll let the listeners decide. I didn't say it was bad. Just saying this is what it's like that your tone. I have 30 minutes with Charlie Barron. Your tone is sarcastic already. I can tell I'm going to be offended. So Charlie was supposed to pick me up at nine

45. He calls me at I think nine 53 and he's like, where are you? And if you know anything about Charlie Barron's, you don't want to go down to the lobby and wait for them. Cause it could be 45 minutes. Well, stay in your hotel room and watch, you know, morning sports. I was early. I was early, early for you. Yes. I was early waiting for you. So he calls me, he's a little, you know. I was in a no parking zone waiting for your ass. I got asked to leave and that's when I called you. I said, where are you? I was being patient.

Sorry, this is your story. So, no, anyways, so then I get in the car and going good. We start chatting and all of a sudden he goes, ah, shit, I think I was supposed to get off on that exit right. Or supposed to get on the interstate right there. So we had to do a little loop around. We ended up finding another way onto the interstate and we're sitting at a stoplight to turn left and there's two lanes turning left.

The lane we are in and the, the left turning lane, it splits. One goes on the interstate. One goes to a different row. Confusing. We, we start, we get the green arrow. Charlie's in the right lane. That's supposed to go right. He needs to be in the left lane. So he kind of starts going and he just goes all and just cuts off the first and in the left lane on the right thing, I had plenty of space. Then all while this is happening, I've mentally noted that there's a cop just sitting, sitting at the stoplight as well. So I was like, all right, maybe this is an isolated occurrence that we're driving the interstate. That cop was then driving in the interstate behind us pretty tightly

and he was running the plates and Charlie's Charlie goes, Oh God, I hope, I hope my tabs are up today. And apparently they were apparently they were or that guy got, you know, he had a rough night the night before he's hung over and he's just driving around, uh, not, not pulling anyone over and you got lucky. Maybe. Um, so then we're driving again, 30 minutes in the next thing you know, Charlie is exiting. We, we get off the exit. He's pulling up the stop sign, stop light. And he's like, ah, I don't think I was, we get off the exit. He's pulling up the stop sign stoplight. He's like, ah, I don't think I was supposed to get off there. No, I look on GPS. He exited eight miles early on like a 20 mile trip. I was, we were only, we were just over halfway

there. We were over halfway there and he got off that we were ready to go. We were only, we were just over halfway there. We were over halfway there and he got off thought we were ready to go. We were more than halfway there. The situation was I knew, I knew that that wasn't the exit but I had a mental like little brain fart, if you will. Gas, gas in the brain. And I knew as soon as I did it, I knew it was wrong. And then I got right back on and just kept her moving

right down here to the Mars Cheese Castle. Miles, I'm sorry, was your seat warmer on? It was, I actually turned it off. What, was the car warm for you this morning? It was. Yeah, did I say anything about the granola bar you ate? Yeah, you did. Yeah. I let you eat in the car. I let you drink your coffee in the car. Okay. I got you here safe and sound. And really I think today what you

need to do is go home and write your gratitude list instead of picking apart my. I mean, objectively, it's probably you just got me here sound. I don't know about safe, you cut across traffic. You're not wounded, I did not cut across traffic. I did not, I said, oh, sorry, you're gonna squeeze right past ya. You did give away, so.

I did give away. It was all good after that. So we're fine then, we're gonna squeeze right past ya. You did give away, so. I did give away. It was all good after that. So we're fine then, we're fine. You know, Miles, I think that, first of all, you're no better than me, okay? You're often late and your car is often messy, all right? So. You know, it's funny about him calling me at 952.

I was still putting my pants on. Yeah, I'll be right down. You know, it's funny about him calling me at nine 52. I was still putting my pants on. Yeah, I'll be right down. I was waiting for you. Hold on. Thank God. Cause I had just gotten there at nine 52. I'm glad we can all. You actually said to me, you're like, I've been waiting. Yeah, I did. I did. Cause I want, I want time to go get coffee that you, you, I think you lied to me. Oh, I lied to you all the time. You said, Oh, I'm there. Love lies. I'm circling the block. Cause a guy said I couldn't park in the spot that I was parked. And he was never parked there. Cause then when I was parked in the spot that he said that he couldn't park, somebody did wave me on. I wasn't parked for very long, but I did get waved along.

Unbelievable. And that guy wasn't there, when I went around the corner. So I figure, well, must be okay now. Signs are just suggestions. Anyways, Miles, do we have a, we got a good episode today, huh? I think we do.

Yeah, it's gonna be fun. We got a fistful of cheese, couple bags of cheese, and couple bags of cheese and a couple beers and a little tippy cow. And we're here at the Mars cheese castle and I am just feeling special. It's morning right now and it is lively in here. It's popping. Bellied up to the bar. Yeah. We got some bloody Marys over there with a little beer, beer chaser on there. What I miles? What I like about this bar. Can I just tell you on that end of the bar, on the east end, it says Soldier Field, 62 miles that way on the west end.

It says Lambeau Field, 149 miles that way. We are in the area of Wisconsin that does have some Bears fans. So we got to be on alert. We got to be on a high alert. Okay, Charlie. Well, yeah. Answer this. Yeah. How can you spot a bears fan in the wild? Oh, I'm so glad. Yes. Well, you look for the saddest person in the room. Okay. They're just walking around. They've got like the, the, like a little cloud that follows them. They're often wet for that reason if they've been always wet

Yeah, they've been rained on recently even on sunny days somehow when you You know you bump into them They suddenly get startled like they didn't know anyone else was there because they're just so much in their own emotions Yeah, they're they've cried that morning for sure and eyes are puffy usually Yeah, if just their shirt is drenched, but their hair is dry. That just means they've been crying all morning. They're often broke because they bet on the Bears and they do it reflexively, even though they know they should never do that.

They usually have Illinois plates and they're cutting you off in, uh, fast lane. Uh, and they're screaming out the window. Why are you going 42? Ah, and then you'll back. Yeah. 42. That was the last time you guys had a super bowl. Yes.

Yes. Actually it was 86, 85, 85, 85 season. 86 is when they won the, the super bowl and they haven't won much since, you know, let's see here. I remember growing up, there used to be a local TV commercial for a sports bar in town. And the, the bit was that there was always four guys bellied up to the bar. Each one

was a representative of each of the North NFC North football teams. Yeah. So you had the Vikings, the cheesehead, you had the bears fan, and then you always had the lions fan. He had a paper bag over his head. Yes. Yes. I would venture to say that I think the lions can pass that paper bag right on over to Chicago Yeah, they have passed it to Chicago brotherhood of the traveling paper bag. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think that We just we got a new award every year a team in the NFC North gets the paper bag award and right now Chicago's got it Yeah, yeah, if you see a fellow Bears fan Give them a paper bag. That's that's very, very accurate.

In fact, Detroit does is doing a collection this Christmas to get all their paper bags over to Chicago. It's like a toy drive. It is that you bring your old paper bag and they are going to ship them down to Chicago. Yes. Yes. Because if you think about it, there's just a big population in Chicago and Detroit doesn't have that population, but every little bit helps. So if you guys have an extra paper bag laying around, please send it to the city of Chicago. They need your paper bags. Uh,

this, this holiday season, even though we're shooting this after the holidays January. Yeah. It's still a holiday somewhere. So, yeah, I mean, I guess the holiday for the bears fans are coming up. What's that? Uh, watching other teams in the super bowl. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big holiday in Chicago. Yeah. Everyone gathers up, bring a paper bag and you know, that's drunk. That's why, um, that's why, uh, bears fans are such bad drivers. So, you know, that's why that's why Bears fans are such bad drivers. So, you know, I can't see, they can't see. It's it's tough to like get the eye holes right.

You know, it fits your your normal viewing when you're outside your car. But you got no you got no Paris, right? No peripherals. You got no peripherals with a paper bag. And that's the problem. Anything off of center line for a Bears fan driving is a blind spot. Mm-hmm because of the paper bag So they're not they're not you know pricks on the road. They just can't see is it and they can't see their speedometer That's why they're going 150 miles an hour Yeah, yeah, that's why they're going.

They're going a minimum of 85. Because even when they turn their head, the bag stays in the same spot. So you see anything. So that means when you flip them off, they can't see that either. Yeah. Yeah. No, we don't flip the Bears fans off. We just wave. They know which finger we mean to wave. You know, that one read flip the Bears fans off. We just wave. They know which finger we mean to wave. You know, that one. Read between the lines, buddy.

Stay between the lines. It says stay between the lines. Stay between the lines, read between the lines. Well, Miles. Should we take some calls? Let's do it. Guys, we have Levi from Michigan. And Charlie.

What's that? Levi's got a confession for us. Oh, we got a bellied up confession. Step into the confessional. Come, my son. Tell us what's on your mind. Yeah. You guys are right, being a little bit of a therapy for me

here for a minute. Yes, we are. We absolutely are. And dramatically the light in our bar just went out. Well, now we're in the confessional. Now we're in the confessional. God did that. It's dark in there for a reason, you know?

Yes. It's kind of, a confessional is kind of like being in a dark bar, you know? It is. You don't really want to see the other person's face. Yep, yep. Well. That's right. That's better that way. Well, tell us what's on your mind here. Levi, what happened? Well, I, uh, this goes back a little ways,

but I was a freshman in high school. And, um, I'm 31 now, So this is a little ways back. Right. And I really liked this girl and she invited me to go to the beach on July 4th with her family to watch some fireworks. And we got there, had this, at this bar and just the grossest burger, greasiest burger I've, I've ever had in my life. And I took one bite and I was like, this is probably, this is going to be a problem. But uh, I was so, I was so insecure. I just ate the whole thing.

I just, I had no, I mean, why wouldn't you, right? Yeah. What are you going to insult the family? Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So I, I eat the whole thing and, uh, we are hanging out at the, at the beach or whatever. And it was, it was great. And then the stomach starts to kill. Uh, we saw that coming, but, uh, the beauty of the beach is, you know, you can, you can fart or whatever and the wind will just take it. Nobody knows. Yeah. It's gone. It's gone like a fart in the wind. Exactly. Yeah. And I was living that and then around it, it was fine until we were leaving so this is like

probably 11 o'clock at night oh no and we're walking back to the car and I'm in my swim trunks flip flops and t-shirt and uh we're walking back and we get to a crosswalk and it just hits. I don't know if you've ever experienced that, but when your stomach just decides this has to go somewhere and right now there's only one way and we're at a crosswalk and it just starts coming out. It's like coming out in my pants and And the thank God I was wearing underwear. And I thought was because I was in swim trunks, that would have just been a mess. But I we we are standing there and there's this like her sister, her mom and her dad and her and like five other strangers and like second time,

somebody just goes, oh my God, can you smell that? And I just covered my own nose and I'm like, oh no, yeah, I can smell it. And they all start like gagging, like they can't breathe. So we keep walking, cause we're not quite to the car and we get to another crosswalk and it happens again. So it starts coming out again. So I've just got, I mean, I'm getting filled up here and we get, I mean, they're, yeah,

they, nobody is, nobody is saying a word other than trying to hold their breath. And we get to the car and I either I'm like, okay, I'm either going to get in the car. Or I'm just going to be a man and say, Hey, I just need to come out here and say this, I have poop in my pants. And I don't know what to do. But I just get in the car. I don't do it. I don't do it. I get in the car. And so I get in the back seat and I sit in between this girl and her sister and I sit right in the middle on the bench seat. And I just, I just sit in it. It just spreads. I mean, I'm just in it and we, we start driving and no one is saying a word.

They just are gagging. And so we start driving and her mom, I'll never forget this, her mom had her head out the window to breathe. She couldn't breathe. And I'm just sitting there. And so her dad goes, obviously we can't take this. So he goes, we have to get out.

So we get to a gas station, we all get out. And he's like, everybody check your shoes. So I like get out and I'm like checking, I'm like barely moving my leg cause I don't want any of it to come out of my head. This is terrible. So I'm like checking my shoes and I go, okay, how about let me, let me run in the bathroom and make sure it's not anywhere else. So I go inside of the bathroom and you know, when I go in the bathroom, they were like, uh, that kid shit himself. Right?

So, but I go in the bathroom and I toss the underwear smart. I put the swimming trunks in the sink, rinse them out. And then I use the hand dryer to dry them off and I come back out and I'm like, I don't, it wasn't me. I don't know. We get back in the car and uh, no one is saying a word. Like, no, there's no one is like asking about it. Everyone is just trying not to throw up and there's like residual smell still. Well, yeah, because you sat in it the whole first part of the ride and it got on the seat.

I hope to God they had leather seats. It had to them. Levi, you really needed to bring your namesake with you on this trip. I think a pair of jeans would have saved you here, my guy. So you just, you're right. You spent the entire time in silence and they knew, I mean, there's a lot to unpack here Charlie. Well first of all why didn't you pump and dump earlier? Pump your pants full of poop and then dump it later. Like why? There had to have been a porta potty by the beach somewhere. Miles you sound like an expert in this situation. I've never been in this scenario. God, no, I've only shit my butt cheeks. You know, I've asked myself that, dude, I don't remember

if when we were at the beach, I don't remember if I think I just always thought it was gas. Like, I don't think I ever thought I need to go. Well, no, we understand that it can suddenly come on. But why did you let it go as far as you did. Well, no, we understand that it can suddenly come on, but why did you let it go as far as you did? Well, I didn't have to. It didn't come until I was with till we were walking back and everything was closed. All the, all the stores were closed on the, on the strip there. I know. Why didn't you just go, I think I'm going to go back in for one more dip and then just run into the water. That would have been the, that been good that would have been good swimming because the way it sounds is these this wasn't

A floater so you'd have been in the clear You're right. It would have dissipated. Were you worried at any point that it would start dribbling down your leg into your shoe? I Was well, I was worried the whole time that it was gonna do that This when I especially when I was sucking my shoes quote unquote. I was worried they were gonna come down Wow Wow, so did you get a second date? You know, I did it for some reason I didn't I don't know why Have you talked to this girl since?

No, I mean, not really. She, uh, she went off to college and then we weren't really friends after that. And I remember her sister was around and I remember bringing it up again. One time, like, do you remember black women, blah, blah, blah? And I was like, I had poop in my pants and she was like, yeah, I mean, we kind of, we kind of figured he did really get away with it. You all know, God, no use. Literally sitting with poop in your pants in a tight car. Her poor mom. Listen, what I couldn't forget. You got it. You should have started like gas

lighting her mom and just blaming her. Yeah. You know, it's okay to admit it. Oh, you got your head out the window. You're probably the one that did it. You're you're over, you're overdoing it. Or you just blame it on it. Blame it on the cows off the road. Like, oh, man, they must just laid fertilizer down. Dude, it's Fourth of July. Then the corn is already knee high. This is why you never leave home without a box of matches, by the way.

That's true, Charlie. All right. I never. You're right. I got. Yeah, I got someone in the truck, you always gotta have matches on ya. Yep, and you knew it was happening, you knew what was going on, that's when you get in the car and say, hey guys, have you ever wondered about the physics

of matches and you light one immediately, and then you just, how long was the drive, an hour? Oh, I bet it was a little over an hour. Wow. Yeah. Felt like an eternity. Yeah. And then you're squishing around.

Wow. Well, thank you for getting this off your chest or off your ass. And imagine they stop at a restaurant, and he just has to order the stinkiest menu item. Probably orders like a whole plate full of Brussels sprouts. Just trying to mask. He pulls out a candle with a match, you know, since we're on a date, set the moon. He's like, just he lights the candle and blows it out. Sorry. I, I screwed it up. I didn't light it right. He just keeps lighting matches the whole time.

Oh God. I do. I do have to think when they drop, cause they dropped me off and I had to think, especially when they brought me to my house and dropped me off when I got out, they were probably like, you, you can never see that kid again. Yeah. That has to be, I don't think that had to be said. I think the girl was pretty made up her mind. Yeah. It didn't have to be convinced. Yeah. I think he probably said anyway, take a good look at him. You see him waddling up to his front door. Look at his, his, his cheeks are clenched. So have you, how many people have you told about this since I've've told I've told a few. I I am married now, so I did have to disclose that.

Yeah, it's like the ring was on there. You know, we're getting married in a few weeks and there's just something I got to tell you beforehand. She's thinking all of the worst things. Yeah, right. Ten years ago, I pooped my pants in front of an entire family and and they had to sell the car because it smelled for eternity after that. He definitely did that after they were married. Yeah, probably. No turning back. He had to commit there. Well,

so my question is, if you had issues with that, maybe you have like an IBS situation going on. Is something else happen? No, you know, I have not had, I won't say, never say never. I have not, I have not had to happen again. But I, I am hopefully a little bit more prepared for next time. Well, let this be a lesson to you. Never trust a fart. And everybody can take that to heart. Don't gamble on farts. No. It's serious business.

People think we're joking. We're not. It's a serious stuff. You're like, oh, I've felt this before. No, you haven't always. And in retrospect, that's a good lesson. Some people don't learn that till they're 30, but you're learning that at ripe young age, pun intended at 14 years old. You know, you can recover at the

age. You can recover. So in retrospect, be thankful you learned this one early. That's right. That's right. All right, man. Well, thanks for calling in and giving your confession. You know, I feel we're not listening to people that know this. We should give them a penance. Yeah. Oh yeah. Since this is a confessional, Charlie, what's his penance? I want you to say to our fathers, a hail Mary, three hail Marys, an act of contrition, actually a Hail Mary for everybody else in that car. So for Hail Mary's total say Hail Mary for your swimsuit and and always never leave home without a box of matches and light a candle in church. The next time you're there for that family.

All right, they're still suffering. They're still a little bit of a little bit of them. Their soul died in that car that day. I just love how every this happened on the Fourth of July. So every Fourth of July, this probably comes back up in conversation like any time there's a bad Fourth of July. Well, at least it's not the time. We leave. I came in.

And they're like, quite literally, we've already hit rock bottom on the 4th of July, so it's all uphill. That was a shitty 4th of July. That was a shitty 4th of July. Oh man, well, good for you Levi. Good for you, thank you for sharing with us. Hey, cheers guys. All right. Thanks for having me on.

Anytime, anytime. Have a good one man. Yep, eat a salad. Oh That's in that's a nightmare scenario that is you know, but it's good to learn those things early in life I'll say that much Yeah, you've never Never had a situation like that, huh? No Yeah, too bad. There wasn't a kid in the car because that would have been you know or a dog you know what would have happened

if there had been a dog well you could blame it on the dog oh okay you know I know what yeah oh yeah I love how the dad gave an out everybody get out and check your shoes yeah check your shoes and he's like looking at them. You go check your shoes in the gas station, in the bathroom. Well, should we take another caller? Guys? We have Patrick from Alabama on the line. He is a structural engineer and he says that he wants to go to tow with me. Wow. Yeah. I don't know what, I don't know what he wants, but Patrick, let's do it. Let's go toe to toe. What do you mean? I just heard you complain about engineers when you, you know, and your time as a concrete worker and

always giving engineers about a hard topic. Somebody's got to stand up for the engineers every now and then. Okay. I knew this was going to happen miles. You couldn't leave the engineers alone and this is the repercussions you get. OK, I knew this was going to happen, Miles. You can't leave the engineers alone. And this is the repercussions you get. All right. You guys go toe to toe. Also, pecker to pecker. Let's see what we got going here for Patrick, but not me. It's more like belly to belly.

Yeah, that's a closer fight. I thought, yeah. How about arm and arm? Arm and arm. All right. Well, that's a whole other thing. Well, what state your piece, Patrick? Yeah. So what, what did I say that really, uh, rubbed you the wrong way?

Well, I mean, I run into it every day at work, man. You it's not concrete guys anymore. It used to be, but now it's welders and fabricators. Now everything's always blamed on the engineer as if we had the final say so. When in all reality, I think the problem that we have when engineers and concrete workers and these guys don't get along is we get distracted

by who the real common enemy is. And that is the client. Yeah, I can. I know I'll agree with that one. The client is always wrong. In other words, client is always a pain in the ass. Always whether it's the Navy on a ship that you're building or somebody's concrete driveway and they want to, you know,

six inches wider at this one spot after they're already been formed up and forward. Yeah. And I think, uh, for me, Charlie, why is it that engineers get blamed for everything? Well, it's because you guys are the rule followers. You guys are the nerds. You're the one saying, we can't do it like this because the building will fall down, you know? It's like, what do you mean? We've done it the other way a hundred times in a row and the building's still standing.

Yeah, but everything's always okay until it's not. And that's what we're doing. We're trying to avoid those bad situations. Yeah, I mean, really, I think the bone I have to pick is when there is a classic over-engineering going on. Would you agree that some people over-engineer things? Every day, man. That's part of the job. Well, give us an example, Miles, of something. When has an engineer hurt you?

When has it been over-engineered? Pocketbook. Pocketbook? Oh, it's a little sped up. The more time they end up engineering something, not only you gotta pay them for more time, you then gotta pay for more material, you gotta do all of this extra stuff

that ends up costing the client money, ends up costing everyone more material. You got to do all of this extra stuff that ends up costing the client money, ends up costing each everyone more money. Well, it doesn't the con don't y'all end up making more money as extra overtime for you guys. Thank you. I was just gonna say people. Well, I also have another one little zinger for you. It'll say you're the concrete guy. You build it too good. You're not going gonna have any repeat customers. Ah, planned obsolescence.

Mm-hmm. It's like the iPhone's intentionally making your battery go to shit. That's why every new building looks like a freaking Ikea. Yeah. Concrete businesses are built on upcharging for having to come fix things. How is anyone supposed to make a living if you guys are engineering stuff to a T stop doing your job so good is what he's saying. All right. I'll make, I'll make sure our buildings are falling down so you guys can have a, we did not say that. We did not say that. I mean, we didn't, we

just want you to make sure that it just has enough structural integrity to not fall down. Not in the worst case scenario, Patrick, I got to tell you from an argument standpoint, you're winning right now. Oh yeah. Yep. In the debate. Yep. He's currently winning. You're going to have to buckle up miles. You're gonna have to give him a little bit more. Cause he just said that also who says pocketbook these days you know in my pocketbook do you still balance a checkbook miles yeah kind of look like you do no god I had a checkbook in high school though did you check book in high school I did Patrick do you have a checkbook I did man I had to pay rent back in the day you couldn't do cash or

credit card no I had to be a check. Got a nice accent by the way. Where are you calling them from again? Man, I'm from mobile Alabama, mobile Alabama. We've got a southerner on the phone. Charlie. I was just in Birmingham or as you guys call it, Burma now. And, uh, that was interesting. It was nice being down in Alabama. Do you guys have a Buc-Ease around there? Yeah, there's one just down the road from me right now. Oh my gosh. I got to tell you,

I got a bone to pick with that frigging Buc-Ease. Okay, I'm a quick trip guy through and through and going to that Buc-Ease, that was like a quick trip made love to a Walmart while that dumb stuffed beaver cocked, you know, it is. I'll tell you what the strapping is that giant wall of jerky they got over there, man. No, they have a giant wall of jerky. They do. That's got to cost more than the whole building itself. I mean, it's it's some spendy

jerky. I will say I was in you're impressed by some things when you walk in, but you start getting close to it and you peel the facade off and it's not as good as it looks, okay? Yeah. Are you a- Now Buc-E's is a Texas thing. You're gonna have to get you a Texas fellow on here

to talk about that. Okay, so you're not- But they're just jumping over state lines and you know, coming on over here. They're spreading like the oral herb. They are. They got one that they were saying might come up in Wisconsin and, uh, you know, there's a flare up every nine months. Not that I know anything about that. And I got it.

It was like a good time. It sounds like a good comparison video coming up. Mm hmm. Yeah, exactly. That would be good. A comparison video of quick trip versus, but you know, but. Well, let. That would be good. A comparison video of quick trip versus. But, you know, but let's hear what. Okay. What's better, Charlie? Buckees or quick trip is better than Buckees. Okay. Buckees. If it was so good, did they need to put up a billboard

like 7000 miles away from the nearest Buckees saying nearest Buckees 7000 miles away? It's just it's hack marketing is what it is. And nothing that's really good needs a mascot there. Do the Green Bay Packers have a mascot? No. Okay. You only need a mascot if your team sucks unless you're the badgers. Well, that's a good question. Is Bucky a woodchuck or what is buck? He's a Beaver. I think he's a Beaver. Yeah. Bucky the Beaver. Why is the Badgers got Bucky? Well, there's a little bit Bucky the Badger and that, and they also ripped off the name Bucky, you know, from

us, you know, you can't be ripping off a mascot. And again, you know, a Badger's got grandfathered into the mascot thing. And it... And it... Like, the bottom line here... What about the Bucks? The Bucks, of course, also grandfathered in, same with the Brewers, but you know,

you don't need it for a freaking gas station, all right? And then you go into that place, they've like socially engineered a gas station. It's like, I feel like a cattle in there. You know, I feel like I'm in a herd of cattle. You know, the way they shovel people around and the way you move, like they took like all these videos and they had surveillance trying to find the easiest flow

for people to get in and get out. I mean, it's too perfect. You know there's something deeper there. You know they're looking at something there. You do, you know, and it's destroying the fabric of American society. That's what's happening. Miles, I think Charlie is just projecting a little bit

because I think he really wants to be the official mascot of Wisconsin. Oh! He's projecting that Buccy's has their own mascot. If he's thinking of all of this gas station is good enough for a mascot, you know, do you Charlie's, you know, Wisconsin's number one fan. If Charlie was the mascot for Wisconsin, he wouldn't be able to walk into any bar because his head wouldn't fit through the door. Yeah. Cheese wedge would be a little too big.

That would actually be good. A Wisconsin mascot, big old cheese. No, it's never. It's not going to happen. I won't let it happen. I'll do a smear campaign against it. Patrick, you don't even like Buc-E's. Why? Why did it turn out you were calling in to give miles crap?

Now you're giving me crap. You're supposed to be on my side. I thought this was a safe space. Hi, this is part of being an engineer. You have to walk that middle line of keeping the client happy and keeping that construction crew happy. That is true. You did a good job there because at first I was ready to arm wrestle you. And now I'm like thinking you're a great guy. So, Hey, you are good. You are good. I Appreciate that. What do you also I had another thing to bring up. Yeah, you got a Navy ship you want by seller trade

Man, I don't think we can swing that right now. There's a lot of contracts and a lot of legal jargon of all this All right With the Midwest nice versus Southern hospitality. Okay. Where, where, what's the defining line? Like I hear you got to talk about the Midwest and Midwest nice. I'm from the South and I've lived this Southern hospitality. So where's the difference? I think the Midwest and the South are pretty much one in the same.

Huh? Huh? Let me just say this. We're not one in the same. There might be similarities, but the whole southern hospitality, it doesn't hold a candle to the Midwest nice, alright? Exactly, yeah. Like, yeah, yeah, hey, it's pretty easy to have nice hospitality, Charlie, when it's sunny and 75 every day.

Yeah, have you guys ever erected the windshield wipers before a sleet storm of your loved ones or just kind of liked ones in the neighborhood? I think not. Have you ever been on your way to work, saw someone in the ditch and derailed your whole day to help pull them out? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Have you ever been sitting in an ice shanty? Okay, and your buddy is outside and he goes, flag! And I'm like, Miles, don't call me that. And then I run out and I go, oh my gosh, I got a Northern on.

And Miles told me that my fish was biting the hook. He could have gone taking that fish, but no, he alerted me. Have you guys ever done any of that? Have you ever done any of that in the South? Absolutely. Really? You've shoveled your neighbor's driveway before.

Hear me out. It's the same coin. It's just different sides. Y'all have these winners that are just so terrible and brutal. You don't even want to step outside because the air hurts your face. Our summers are so hot. When you step outside because the air hurts your face. Our summers are so hot. When you walk outside in the morning, you can hear the sun. You can hear the sun cooking you alive. So what do you do? Yeah. So what do you do in that

blistering heat that equals our Midwest? Nice. It's the opposite of the same coin. Y'all bundle up. We shredded. We take off layers. That's not hospitality. You're taking off other people's clothes. This sounds honestly very Southern. I'm going to be honest, Charlie. I think I kind of like Southern hospitality now. Well, miles down there. What's that? No, nothing. Well, what do you guys do in the heat? What are you doing? The heat, the help other people, I offer them a cold glass of sweet tea, but all right, that's a start. What else? I, you know, invite them inside, send them down, offer them a lot, give them a good sandwich

Ask them how the folks are doing Okay, okay What are y'all doing? It's super cold outside and see somebody shivering Well, I mean we give them our coat you give them. Yeah, you maybe give them a shot of brandy Charlie Yeah, that's the internal sweater Because we can't give a coat to somebody in the summer. We have to bring them into our home, bring them into the luscious air conditioning that we're paying for. Well, it turns out Charlie that everything they do for Southern hospitality, we also do up North.

Yeah. It gets swampy up here in the summers. We got some ice cold beers instead of sweet tea up here that we offer people. We, you know, welcome them into our home and say, Hey, a walleye biting out there or no. Yeah. And we say it's not the heat. It's the humidity. Yeah. We say, yeah, it's hot enough out there for your, you know, balls. So, I mean, what I'm trying to say, Charlie, is we do all the stuff that they do, but I've never heard of someone in Mobile, Alabama, shoveling their neighbors driveway. Have you ever shoveled anyone's driveway?

No, not never want. Alright, well, so yes there is southern hospitality, but I think Midwest Nice beats it out. And also, I'm on to you Patrick. I know when you say bless your heart, you're really telling me to go F myself. I would never say that to you Charlie. You wouldn't, you would say bless your heart. And? No, I'd just say, oh, he sure is. You know, I'm sure his mama loves him. Charlie, you're a guy only a mom could love. I got that, I got that.

Patrick, what are you building over there on the, in the stockyard? What are you in? You're in the shipyard. What are you building over there? I'm building a couple Navy vessels, a Coast Guard vessel and a big dry dock right now. Oh, nice.

How's the Navy looking these days? We gonna beat China or what's going on? Right now they're looking haze gray. That's what we paint everything. Haze gray. Okay, cause that when you get out on the sea, you know, it's largely hazy gray Yeah, yeah Yeah, and now we know what the weather's like in the you know, South China Sea. It's hazy gray. That's right. Yeah, that's it

South China Sea, I got one more Miles I got one more bone to pick with you buddy. I'm sorry. I like it. It's all right I think there's a little bit of a conspiracy on our hands that needs to be addressed. I see a lot of my favorite content of yours miles has always been the Yeti comparison. And I've noticed lately, I haven't seen any more Yeti comparisons coming out. So make the question has miles been bought out by big Yeti? I would, I would love to be bought out by big Yeti. You know, the paycheck that could

come with that. Have you seen what that company is worth? They're worth a billion dollars. Well, I bet they're billion dollars because they sell a coffee cup. If I was bought out by Yeti, I definitely wouldn't be sitting at this bar with Charlie. What I thought we're here because we're friends. Oh yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Oh my gosh. We would be in the Caribbean at a bar doing this. So well, it begs the question where the Yeti comparison videos gone. Um, well one, we've done a lot of products and I don't want to just, I don't want to just pick something on their website and make fun of it. You know, that's what the, that's the low hanging fruit. That's what someone who is an amateur would do. I

got to make sure that I'm waiting for the fresh new stuff, stuff that is so absurd that it basically writes itself. So it sounds like he's writing on that next yeti care package to show up. I would love that. You could sling that stuff on Facebook market flex marketplace for a pretty penny. Patrick, you seen any product you want Miles to do a review of? Hey, what that yeti backpack a little bit a little bit out there.

How much is it? More than I can afford. Probably $600 for a backpack. Backpack? Yeah. I mean you gotta hand it to them. They're like there's a bunch of rich people out there with that like dog bowls. White coolers for white collars. You said that. That's right. That's a bit of a catchphrase. No, it's also one of those things. I've been doing Yeti videos now for like at least four years. But now it's to the point where I want it to be a little bit of a sweet treat when we do it.

OK. You know? Yeah. Oh, here's the Yeti bag. Oh, it's on sale, Charlie, for only $184. Dear God. What the hell? At that price, you lose money not buying it. Oh, it's on sale Charlie for only a hundred and eighty four dollars your god What the hell at that price you lose money not buying? I know you can't pass up on those kinds of savings clearly It's not selling very well. It's action-packed tough enough to get dirty smartly designed to sort your essentials Wait, it says tough enough to get dirty

Honestly, yeah, oh you can get the 35 liter. You know, I usually measure my backpacks in leaders. I don't even know how big that is. Uh, the 35 liter backpacks on sale for 200 bucks. Are they selling these to Europeans leaders? Okay. Toy. This one's waterproof. It's blaze orange. I like the blaze orange. That's it's water. It's on for me. Nice. I come in handy, dude. That's it's water. I don't want to be nice. I come in handy dude. That's $300 are you free? Yeah, but it holds 28 liters of stuff So Yeah

If you know leaders in the case of beer though, oh god, okay carry the one minus the two divided by four four leaders Let's Google it we're in America. All right. Yeah, we use free. We use freedom units over here. Thank you Thank you. How many things are measured by leaders on that ship you're designing? Exactly zero leaders were zero leaders worth see that see that yeah, I mean that's got to be a weird thing don't Exactly. Zero liters worth. Zero liters worth. See that? See that? Yeah. That's gotta be a weird thing. Don't, uh, or do engineers use the metric system or do they, are they still using the American freedom system?

It depends on the project, which is weird. You would think all one Navy would use the same thing from boat to boat, but different boats use meters, different boats use freedom units. That's why engineers cost so much. They're spending their whole time converting different metrics. See? Oh, terrible.

Again, Miles, it's not the engineer, it's the client. That's true. Yeah. Bring it all back, Charlie. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I got your back, Patrick. I got your back. I appreciate it.

Well, thanks for calling in, man. This has been really insightful. This really has been insightful. Miles, any final questions here? Yeah, if you know anyone, if you know anyone who works at Yeti that wants to send me a care package, I need to sling that on Facebook marketplace because I got a kid now, so I got to pay for stuff.

Oh yeah. So send miles of free backpack. He'll sell it. First I'll do a video. First I'll do a video. Sell it. Then it'll be on Facebook marketplace for a whopping $200 for a 30 liter backpack. We'll know when miles gets that yeti gig cuz they'll have a yeti wallet finally

Yes, a hundred percent, you know, I'll start wearing like gold chains and stuff Bill fold I'll show up in a black suburban. That's the windows are all tinted. That's when you'll know I I took the bag from yeti Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know that I had a $200 wallet Good God, have you done that video? No, no, you gotta get back. I was just my idea See Patrick. I think now if you do this video miles guys a little check actually the The I mean gonna ask for some royalties, you know giving them all these good content ideas Yeah, you know this actually comes all these good content ideas. Yeah. You know, this actually comes full circle. Charlie Charlie are a Yeti's whole motto is over engineering something. And so honestly, this sounds like the perfect marriage for

you, Patrick. I think if this whole job you got now, don't work out, go work at Yeti. They're going to love you. Well, Yeti, if you're listening, you know, miles are giving me my phone number. Got to go through miles to get to Patrick. Well, Patrick, thank you for calling in my guy. Absolutely. Fellas. It was a blast. All right. We'll talk to you soon. Good luck on the ship.

Appreciate it. Bye bye now. I actually am a little disappointed Charlie that I've never gotten one contact from Yeti ever that will you spend, you built your career trashing them. Why do you think they're going to call you? I don't know. You know, I mean the Vikings fans spend their whole life trashing their own team, but, you know, that's true. Appreciate the fans.

That's true. So are you OK? A Yeti fan? Do you own any Yeti stuff? Well, so here's what I do own. Yeti stuff. But it's all the stuff that I bought for a video. Oh, yeah. You know, and it's like you have the receipt and then it just never gets returned. Yeah. But then it actually has come in handy because we've used it for future videos. Oh, okay. But you've never actually used the Yeti stuff. I mean, I have buddies that have Yetis. Okay.

But yeah, I actually don't own a Yeti cooler. I own a bunch of the Yeti cups because people send them to you You got a gift you guys a gift. Yeah. No, I have a lunchbox. I have a bottle opener a ice bucket So if you want to do the ice bucket challenge at any point, let me know I got one Most expensive ice bucket challenge you can do. All right. Should we take another caller? Let's do it. Miles, it's winter and people are driving and we know that in winter accidents happen

when you're driving. Some people don't know the rules of the road. They don't. They don't know in the winter you drive in the Midwest, you got to drive slow enough so the person, the passenger seat can fill a wallet without getting an accidental circumcision. They don't know that and sometimes they go ass over teakettle into a ditch. In their car? Yeah. I've seen it. Yeah. I have. Slow down traffic this that but you can get hurt bad.

It's true. And what do you do if you're in that situation? Thank you for asking, Miles. You call Nicolay. You do. Oh. Because that beard, that beard will show you the way, you know, when you're in a tight spot like that, you just, your brain should instantly go call Nicolay. Yeah. Cause you've been through enough. The jaws of life pulled you out of that wreck and Nicolay is there for your personal injury situation. They'll get that money from that greedy insurance company. You know, they'll do it. So guys, if you're injured this winter, make sure you call Nicolet Law at 1-855-NICOLET

or visit nicolet.com. And maybe you'll get Nicolet. Ha ha ha. Cut that out. Charlie. Hi. What's your moody years resolution? My my moody years resolution is to not take life too seriously, to relax a little more. And you know how I like to relax my house with an ice cold glass of tippy cow, I would say.

Yeah. Mm. Moo. I actually got you a new year's present. A moody's present. Yes. What is it, Miles? Is it just look in your. It's this T-shirt you put on my lap. What does it say, Charlie? Tip tip a glass, not tip a glass, not a cow.

All that is so awesome, Miles. Yeah. You got it just in my size. Excel. Yeah. You think I it just in my size. XL. What is it? Yeah. You think I'm getting caked up in this new year? Well, I figured that you're going to start lifting weights after you lost me in arm wrestling.

Miles, you cheated. Anyways, guys, if you liked that shirt, we got them for sale at all you bet you.com. You can get yourself a nice tip of glass, not a cow. It's a great life lesson too. It's a great motto. It is a great motto. Thank you for the t-shirt. Save cows. Drink tippy cow. Yeah, that's

what I'm talking about. We'll tip it on back. Miles to the tippy cow. Cheers. Guys, we have Jack from Aberdeen, South Dakota, and he says that he's in a little bit of a predicament. His wife doesn't want him to go ice fishing without her, and he doesn't know what to do. Is that true? Jack? That well, Jack, all you gotta do is take her with you. What's the problem? Well, she's a boozy woman. So you'll feel five gallon bucket doesn't really

work for her. Oh yeah. About the old four person, uh pop-up sled, but that's still not adequate. She's more of an ice castle kind of gal. Oh, an ice castle. Yeah, but she doesn't want me to spend that ice castle money, if you know what I mean. Oh, so we got a little predicament. She wants an ice castle, but on a beer budget money, light beer budget money. We're not talking craft beer.

30 rack. You could almost call it bush light type of money there. There you go. I like that. All right. So you got to... Well, before we get into that, why does she want to go ice fishing with you and why doesn't she just sit on a bucket? I know she's bougie, but

she's, uh, we do everything together. Kind of a kind of marriage. If that makes sense. That's great. We, we, uh, what I do, she does, what she does, I could do. If that's kind of picking up what I'm throwing down. Do you like this aspect, Jack? stopped you bad. It has its ups and downs for sure Anytime you hit a falsetto in the bed, I think that you know When you married her did you know that she was bougie? So I did to a certain extent. So a little backstory, I had to pull a Charlie and I had to get divorced once. My second marriage. First of all, Jack, we can call pulling a Jack. All right. Okay. We don't need to, we don't need to say pulling a Charlie. A lot

of people get divorced 50 percent if you look at the numbers. So we could call it pulling a Tony Larry, a Joe, a Frank, you know. So this one, you know, we kind of this one. I don't think you should address her when she's around as this one by the way This is a little tip for you. Yeah, my latest wife. Yeah. Yeah Working on my second divorce wife He's on that he thinks marriage is just trial and error

Fine fine one. Do you like her give away after you're stopped? Yeah. I really liked this one. So this is all I got to deal with. It's not a bad deal. No. All right.

So the predicament is you need an ice castle on a budget and maybe what happens if you make an ice castle, you do everything she asks and yet she still doesn't wanna come? Are you allowed to still go ice fishing in that scenario? I think I'm gonna pull a jack then, and have another divorce. No, I'm just kidding.

No, I try to convince her to get a bigger pop-up. I mean, you see those guys that put the military bunks in there so you can sleep the nice heaters, nice insulated. Just, she's just not quite a hundred percent sold. So I needed your guys's help to kind of ease her into it. I think once she experiences it catches that first wall. I that first big perch, I think she'll be hooked.

I just got to get her in there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, yeah. Okay. Um, well, Charlie, if you were going to, if you were going to do an ice castle on a light beer budget, what would you do? Well, I'd be looking for existing structures that you can get for cheap. And, uh, just off the top of the dome, uh, cheap existing structure with a hole in the bottom,

porta potty. Okay, now hear me out, hear me out. Yeah. Just one porta potty, that's just a porta potty on the lake. That's not gonna fly in this scenario. But let's say you get four porta pots for the cost of one. Okay, you bolt them together. Now, it's not just four porta pots bolt them together. Now, it's not just four Portapies bolted together. Each person gets their own private fishing suite.

Yes, it's all in the marketing. It's a Airbnb listing. It's not small, it's quaint. Airbnb, exactly, yes. And there is already a toilet there, which means there's already a hole in this situation. So you just fish right out of the hole and it's, it's, uh, it's got everything you need, all the amenities, uh, like help me out miles. What are the amenities? Well, so not only is it a fishing hole, you also have a built in seat. That's true. And

those things are comfortable. I've sat on a toilet seat for at least 45 minutes and still been comfortable. Your legs may fall asleep, but that's all part of the experience. So you can fish out of your sitting hole. Is that what you're saying? If you want to, I mean, I just don't set the hook too hard. You might catch a little more than you bargained for. But yeah. And then, oh, in the urinal where you pee,

just put some ice in there and then you got coolers. Okay. Yeah, it's like a beer bucket, but a beer urinal. Exactly. Just plug the hole with a little rag and then put some ice in there, or some snow. You're right out there. Snow, yeah.

And then you got a whole cooler slash fridge of beer right there inside. This is feeling cheap and bougie. And in the soap dispenser, because if you're lucky enough to get one of those, just wash that out, put some M&Ms in there. So now you got a little M&M dispenser. Yeah, if she gets hungry,

well, she also might not get hungry because of the smell. So now you're saving money on snacks and food and she isn't, you can cross that one off the list. Yeah. Well, there, there you have it. And then you just drill a couple of skis to the bottom of it and that'll help you pull it right across the ice. Yeah. And she doesn't have to go outside and go to the bathroom or go in the truck and goes to a public place to go you got a bathroom right in there. Right one of the porta pots you you maintain as

a porta pot so I mean it's it's a ice palace with a half bath. Yeah. I like that I like that. And if you know like in ice castle once in a while they'll have TVs and stuff so she's probably looking for some entertainment. Yeah. There is a ton of graffiti on the inside of these porta Johns. Oh, brilliant. That'll keep you busy for an hour reading all of the call this number for a good time. And then she can call the number and have a good time. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, if you're not giving her you just better make sure you're giving her a good

time before she goes into that one stall. But you know, you get four porta potties tied together. There'll be a good time. Yeah, I haven't met anyone that hasn't had a good time in four porta potties. What do I have for handicap? One is two. Now you're talking. Oh, yeah. You got room to spread out. You could, you could put a cotton there. Yeah. What would we call it? Charlie? Porta pop up. Yeah. Porta pop up. Yeah. There you go.

I like that. Take that. Catch me some walleye. Oh, you'll get some walleye. Yeah. You might also get divorced, but you're definitely getting a walleye. Yeah, that's that's what I like to hear. These are some walleye in the in the future, possibly. Yeah, yeah. And the way that you market it before the divorce. Yes. It's not for porta potties stuck together, Charlie. It's a it's a portable experience. It's a portable experience. Wow, Miles, that is brilliant. It's not graffiti on the wall.

It's a... Art. It's art. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. And it's not old. It's upcycled.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Reclaimed. Oh, that's new, that's in. Upcycled, reclaimed, that's in. Mm-hmm. Reclaimed. Yeah. The reclaimed Porta Pop-Up. I like it. Boy, you guys might have something going here. I think we do. Yeah. Yeah. Porta Pot. Porta Pop-Up is now trademarked, though. So for anyone listening.

Yeah, sorry. And Porta Potty's TM can't fix. Yeah. Yeah. Porta Potty's a lot of times they're really easy to come by. Like you'd be surprised you go on Craigslist, they're selling them. Otherwise you just go to a construction site with your truck and no one questions you if you're putting a port-a-potty in the back of the truck, you know, they're like, why would they do that? They must be maintenance. Yeah. They're like, there's no no no one would steal a port potty in Their right mind. No, no, so you're gonna be completely fine. You might be able to do this for free Honestly, all you need is a good hose. I

Got a couple of those good good Now what about insulating the old poor potty? We've all sat in on when it's cold and there's a little bit of a breeze. Yeah. Keep your pants on first off, I guess. But to insulate it, what would you do? Spray foam the shit out of it. Yep. Smart. I know some guys in their hunting van, they bought an old van, gutted the inside and they literally took spray foam out of a can and did the whole inside. And I tell you what, it gets toasty in there. Toasty. Yeah. And then you got to, that takes care did the whole inside. And I tell you what, it gets toasty in there. Toasty, yeah. And then you got to, that takes care of the smell too.

You can just inhale those fumes. This actually probably would work. Yeah, it would get rid of the smell, at least initially. I mean, the insulating it and it would be kind of cozy in there. Yeah, yeah. You could even, and if you wanted to, the only problem is that would get rid of the graffiti.

Well, take pictures of the graffiti before you spray foam, frame them and put them on the wall. Smart, smart. And if you wanted to hide the spray foam, you know, you could do a little wood paneling over it, because that would be really nice. You wouldn't even know you're sitting on a porta pot at that point. I tell you what, that would now use just one door have all four doors still operable. Oh, all four doors operable.

You're gonna wanna cut actually if some doors open. Yeah, yeah. Holes in the side. Actually, you wouldn't even need a buddy heater in this thing, because it's already got a smokestack in it. Oh yeah. You just build a fire in one of the you know one of the little contraptions where the seat is and you put the seat down. Mm-hmm. You know and then you lift

it up to stoke it and all the smoke goes out the top. Oh that's not that it's either gonna work out real good or the entire family's gonna die of carbon monoxide poisoning but. True. But with the stack, you could also cook your freshly caught perch and walleye. That is true. Yeah. Keep the game going off your tail. You know, well shoot, if that's the case, then one of the porta pods don't even empty them out. That's good. Fire God. Yeah. Yeah. The blue smoke. Yeah. It's a boy. Oh boy. Oh yeah. God fucking weirdo guys with the porta pop-up doing a gender reveal party out on the ice. Another boy. Every time you go, you get free cigars. He's like, God, they got it. They got to, they got to have eight kids under every year. They got a gender reveal party over there. It's that ice shack. It gets the motions going. Yeah. That would be cocky. You do the deed and then you just start up a fire in

there with the blue smoke. I know it's going to be a boy. I was deep. I was in the right position. She was on top. I just can't think of a more romantic place, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I can imagine explaining that. So yeah, you were conceived and also born in a porta pop up. Standing up. With a fish on the hook.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh, there you go. I can't wait for you to go forward with this. send us a picture when it's all done. All right. Oh I'm gonna have to I got a couple porter potty floating around sure I can find out good. I'm to you guys good Yeah, guys out here to go fishing. Maybe I'll have you guys fishing one, too Yeah, well, why don't you test it out first? one too. Well, why don't you test it out first? All right. We don't want to tamper. The wife approved. We want an honest review. We don't want to tamper with, you know, the R and D.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're glad that we could help you out here and good luck and I hope you catch some fish. Oh, thank you fellas very much. All right. Well, we'll talk to you soon. Okay. I talk to you later. Bye bye now. Oh yeah.

That was good. He tank. I mean, seriously, I think honestly with the amount of porta potties that exist in this world, there's no shortage of raw material and This could be a mass-produced thing miles. If this doesn't work out for us, maybe we should get in the porta pop-up business Mm-hmm. Yeah, I agree. Well guys, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the bellied-up podcast We'll see you next one and remember Charlie one tip your bartender. Love you guys. Bye. Bye